BBC 'good guy' builder's company 'left millionaire widow's £1.2million home ... trends now
A builder who starred as a 'good guy' in the BBC's 'Cowboy Trap' has been accused of a 'shambolic' job after a widow claimed his workman left a boot print in the paint of her house and her shower is too short.
Paul Shanahan, managing director of Greystoke Builders Ltd, played a key role as a 'good guy' during nine episodes of BBC's 'Cowboy Trap,' in which he was called in to salvage 'disasters' and botched jobs done by rogue builders.
But now he is facing claims from widow and African studies academic Dr Zohor Aylwin that his workers left multiple defects behind after a £100,000 revamp at her £1.2m house.
She alleges his staff left a 'boot print of the company's employee' in paintwork.
It is also claimed his workers installed a toilet that wouldn't flush and a shower too low to get under.
The company is denying what it says are 'alleged but unsubstantiated defects' and demanding £50,000 in unpaid bills for the work, in a case that has run up £460,000 in lawyers' bills.
Paul Shanahan (pictured outside court), managing director of Greystoke Builders Ltd, played a key role as a 'good guy' during nine episodes of BBC's 'Cowboy Trap,' in which he was called in to salvage 'disasters' and botched jobs done by rogue builders
Widow and African studies academic Dr Zohor Aylwin (pictured with her son Idris) claims that his workers left multiple defects behind after a £100,000 revamp at her £1.2m house
But now his company is in a legal fight with Dr Zohor Aylwin after Greystoke carried out a revamp on her home in the Oaks, Watford, in 2019.
The case began when Mr Shanahan's company sued Dr Aylwin for unpaid invoices totalling about £50,000, with her then suing the company in return over an alleged series of defects in the work.
Her barrister, Ashley Pratt, told Judge Nicholas Parfitt KC at Mayors and City County Court that she has a number of complaints about the quality of the revamp project.
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This ranged from the cost of replacing a boiler, sub-standard paintwork including one surface being marked with a 'boot print of the company's employee', problems with the newly fitted Howden's kitchen, and a toilet that failed to flush.
'The shower was clearly too short to fit under and was clearly
